Giuseppe Cades. Draughstman and master painter. Rome, 1750-1799

Geboren: Rome, 4 March 1750; Gestorben: Rome, 8 Dec 1799). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was an important history painter and decorator, whose paintings and drawings vary in manner from the Baroque to Neo-classical, and who anticipated Romantic historicism. His subjects are taken from Greek and Roman literature, 16th- and 17th-century religious history and Italian literature of the early and High Renaissance; his many drawings include preparatory studies, caricatures, genre scenes and portraits. He trained under Domenico Corvi at the Accademia di S Luca, where he won prizes with drawings such as the mannered and brilliant Tobias Healing his Blind Father (1766; Rome, Accad. N. S Luca). However, Cades had to leave Corvis studio ca. 1766, as Corvi apparently resented his pupils excessive independence (Lanzi).